Zuhair Fakir and his family arrived in Dunshaughlin through a pilot State project
, including people from the justice department and the gardaí. That was in June 2018, and they told us we would be in Ireland by the end of the year. That truly made us happy, we’d been through a very bad situation in Lebanon.”
Mr Fakir and his wife, a former English translator, are now searching for jobs in Ireland. “I don’t know how to express how we feel; we are delighted. We are open-minded people and we intended to start a new life here, we were prepared to do that. We found very big-hearted people in this community and a warm welcome.”
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